LSU professor to be published in medical journal

Juan J. Martinez, Ph.D, an associate professor in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, has been accepted for publication in Infection and Immunity.

“Non-selective Persistence of a Rickettsia conorii Extrachromosomal Plasmid during Mammalian Infection,” by Martinez and senior author Sean. P Riley, Ph.D, is scheduled to be published in the research journal’s March issue.

Infection and Immunity reports on key discoveries in the fields of molecular pathogenesis, cellular microbiology, microbiome relating to host-pathoigen interactions and bacterial infection, among other research topics, a news release said.

The work was funded by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and by a pilot grant from the LSU-SVM Center for Experimental Research in Infectious Disease Research.